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Vintage Aurora 88 - A Gift From The Past

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OK, let us be complete. Filling any pen it should be automatic to wipe excess ink off the nib on the bottle as you withdraw it.

 

In the case of piston fillers I then make three more slight movements with the piston: down a smidgin (pen over the bottle or else up-pointed), back up the same smidgin, then down half a smidgin (pointed up). Then comes the section / nib wipe I mentioned. My thinking behind those extra piston movements is to remove excess ink from the feed area, but not to leave the piston tight at the back of the barrel. The latter notion comes from something I read about Aurora 88s somewhere.

 

In the case of plunge fillers, having completed the fill I leave the shutoff valve closed until the ink line visibly weakens, which can take a little while. This has resolved early-blob issues for those. All forms of rubber sac pen are simply used after the cosmetic wipe.

 

Deep in the weeds on filling technique. I love it. And appreciate you taking the time to share.

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They booth share roots in design: Olivetti for the Aurora 88 vs Braun for the Lamy 2000. They are both piston-filler pens with hooded nibs and pull-off caps. They are similar in size (the Lamy at being a little heavier) and both write well posted and unposted.

the Aurora 88 was not designed by Olivetti, but by Marcello Nizzoli, an industrial designer who designed also for Olivetti.

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Which seller did you buy it from? I would like to buy one. 

"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." Terence

 

I share the humanity of people, I’m like the rest of everybody and certainly I’m not better or higher than anybody in anything, regardless of what they believe in or don’t believe in. What they experience is certainly not alien to me. I’m part of all people and they are part of me, interbeing, that is.

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On 9/3/2023 at 11:19 AM, ibrahim said:

Which seller did you buy it from? I would like to buy one. 

 

Two weeks ago I bought an 88P in very nice condition at the San Francisco Pen Show.  The dealer was Miroslav Tischler and he had several vintage 88s for sale.  His website is www.penkalapens.com but it seems to be mostly a placeholder.  If you PM me I'll send you his email address, which I don't want to share in an open forum.

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